Age 31
Maryland, USA.
Seen August 18th, 2010
Posted June 25th, 2010
159 posts
14.1 Years
If you're a fan of old-fashioned adventure games, you'll love SC2, it's FREE!

Released in 1992 for the PC, ported to the 3DO a while later, and finally ported to modern operating systems for free around 2002, SC2 is a combination of adventure and good ol' spaceship combat. The plot of SC2 is actually deep enough that I don't want to spoil too much, but I can give you a bit of background.

Humanity, part of an alliance with various alien species, was at war with the Ur-Quan, a violent species of giant caterpillar-like aliens with an ancient chip on their shoulder and a rather unpleasant WE'RE SUPERIOR doctrine. During this time, the player character, named by the player of course, was sent to the Vela star system under order of Star Control, for a scientific expedition. The expedition didn't go so well, and they found themselves stranded on a planet they dubbed Unzervalt. Luckily, the crew of the ship found ruins on the planet belonging to the Precursors, a species that had spread rapidly across the Milky Way, even leaving evidence of their presence on Pluto, until they vanished off the face of the universe some 300,000 years ago. Amazingly, in a stroke of luck the ruins turn out to be a Precursor manufacturing plant, allowing the crew to piece together a bare bones Precursor space vessel, and head towards Earth.

Sadly, in all the time spent on Unzervalt, the war with the Ur-Quan was lost, the Alliance shattered, and the Earth became one of many planets put under a slave forcefield allowing no communications or vessels in or out. Gameplay starts off from this point.

SC2 gameplay involves space travel, ship combat, diplomacy with aliens, or resource mining. The game does take a bit of patience, as resource mining takes up a fair bit of time and is very necessary to purchase more fuel and upgrade your ship to be able to travel farther and take on tougher opponents. The game does have a certain charm in that you will want to press on just to see the next bit of plot or bizarre alien species.

Screenshots!

Space combat. FIRE THE SPACE FLAMETHROWER!!!



Planet Earth, under the Ur-Quan slave-shield.





The Orz are an odd species whose language is difficult to translate. Let's just say they come from far away.





Download!:http://sc2.sourceforge.net/